Like a watermelon falling off the back of a truck

I’m fairly trembling with energy.
My tiny chihuahua-sized cold isn’t stopping me.  
The weekend before I got my chihuahua sized cold, I had no energy. I languished by the TV watching the Food Network all weekend. “Such amazing people. They cook. Why does my face feel like it’s melting off?” 
This week I am my own HGTV/Food Network star.
Lots of [...]

Maybe I’m Just Tired

(My heavy head is full of debris  -As Tall As Lions)
Like my sick kitty, the wisdom teeth, the car mirror, locking the keys  in the car, getting my hand stuck in the shredding bin, and people who don’t help their kids.
(I know we’re all souls just trying to connect with someone – As Tall As [...]

Charles Widmore got to Dish Network

I love LOST, I love LOST, I love LOST. If it’s Wednesday night I am watching the clock gleefully anticipating 9 pm when I experience confusion interspersed with brief moments of insight. And Desmond.
 
Last night Jack was waking up in a jungle. Again, without me. Just once I’d like to wake up beside him. And [...]

What is vim and what is vigor?

Sleep a little later. Feed the cats. It always starts with feeding the cats.
Eat pie for breakfast. Sneeze a few times and wonder why my nose is stuffed. Linger over that cup of morning coffee with Finding George Orwell in Burma. Start Hamlet’s Dresser by Bob Smith.
Hang clothes on the line. Wash dishes. Pull a few weeds. Fuss over potted [...]

In which I describe a series of 3 weird coincidences

Number One: Last Saturday I borrowed the German film “Goodbye Lenin” from the library but I didn’t watch it right away.
On Monday I was given a copy of “Ladies in Lavender” to watch. But then I remembered I’d already seen it so I sent it back to Neflix without even looking at it.
Last night I watched “Goodbye Lenin”. Great [...]

Why I get a charge out of Oprah Magazine

1. The December issue is fat, glossy & adorned with a giddy Oprah getting ready to jump through a very large Christmas wreath
2. In her December “What I Know for Sure” column Oprah says that due to the current economic crisis “our spending and greed for material things that we think will define us have been forcibly put [...]

Dick Meyer says “worship the off button”

I’m afraid to watch the election coverage tonight. Afraid that lying, cheating, fear-mongering Republicans might win again and I will wake up in a dark alley somewhere lying in a pool of my own vomit because my tonic for four more years of Republican Rule would be alcoholism.
And that’s not something I really want to contemplate. I’m [...]

Sometimes I get letters from Stephen Colbert

The best TV super villain in TV super villain history

I like to pretend that my vote is counted/counts. Even though that’s silly because I live in Florida. Today I’m voting on the best TV super villain.
Should I pick Sylar, who slices open the heads of highly evolved people so he can suck out their powers?
Or should I pick Suze, who just sucks?
Sylar, who causes radioactive explosions, or Suze, who makes [...]

wond’ring aloud

I have been watching the Olympics. A lot.
I am wondering how awesome it is to have a body like a machine and also if Bob Costas has a toupee?